A Sober Take on Affluence Run Amok

I'm glad readers appreciate Samuelson's article. Others stop at the scapegoat (execs). He delves deeper.
We can't afford to excuse waste of energy in 'poor countries'. Actually it indicates luxury of affluent people in
those countries. 300 new cars hit Mumbai???s heavily clogged roads daily. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/global-warming-just-what-overcrowded-polluted-india-didnt-need-the-3000-car-454140.html It???d be easier to wake Americans up from their dream than to get ruling elites in poor countries -who are fixated on the American dream -to adopt a (Gandhian) state of the mind. Sharadchandra D Jog Mumbai

Editors,
When I saw the latest cover (Obama's Lincoln) I almost lost my lunch. When I saw page 28, I lost it! Comparing Obama to Lincoln is way past far-fetched, it is ludicrous. One is a great statesman tested by trials and tribulations, his deeds are well recorded in history, the other a political novice with less executive experience than most boy scout leaders. What next, will you compare our national economy to my checkbook?
Jimi Whitten
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El Dorado, Ar 71730
jimiw@suddenlink.net

What's this? Karl Rove, the master of gutter politics and slime, lecturing the GOP on being morally serious? What a charage. As John McEnroe would put it, "You can't be SERIOUS!"